Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate
- ISBN-10
- 0971885850
- ISBN-13
- 9780971885851
- Series
- Before the Deluge
- Category
- Dams
- Pages
- 24
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-05
- Author
- Lori Pottinger
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